The first time I watched Hotel Rwanda, I was not a Christian. I remember thinking, what a tragedy, then moving on with the usual daily thing. Things of this magnitude did not affect me much at all. I quickly forgot Rwanda.

I have been praying to God everyday to break my heart because I can be quite hard hearted. I watched Hotel Rwanda again today. It broke my heart intensely… Nearly 1 million people were murdered in just 100 days over race…

Worse still is the lasting effects of genocide in Rwanda. Reading Operation World, I discovered that Rwanda claims to be 80% Christian! The genocide has led to increasing Islam because people don’t want the peace that Christianity offers…

God forgive us for our hatred toward each other… Pray for Rwanda, they are still suffering from the aftermath… Pray for an abundance of sold out Jesus loving missionaries to show the Rwandans what it really means to be Christian… Pray for God to use this new brokenness for His glory…

In Christ… Michelle

Romans 1

²⁸ People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do.²⁹ They are filled with every kind of sin, evil, selfishness, and hatred. They are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, lying, and thinking the worst about each other. They gossip³⁰ and say evil things about each other. They hate God. They are rude and conceited and brag about themselves. They invent ways of doing evil. They do not obey their parents.³¹ They are foolish, they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or mercy to others.³² They know God’s law says that those who live like this should die. But they themselves not only continue to do these evil things, they applaud others who do them.